Literacy and Mobility: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College [Hardcover]

Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a failing U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and literacy practices across educational institutions, neighborhoods, cultures, and national borders. By following research participants trajectories in and across scenes of literacy in school, college, home, online, in transit, and elsewhere, the work illustrates how students help constitute and connect one scene of literacy with others in their daily lives; how their mobile literacies produce, maintain, and disrupt social relations and identities with respect to race, gender, class, language, and nationality; and how they draw upon multiple literacies and linguistic resources to accommodate, resist, and transform dominant discourses.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Literacy in Place and Motion

Chapter 2: Methodology for Mobile Literacy

Chapter 3: School Systems of (Im)mobility

Chapter 4: Mobile Collaborations

Chapter 5: Pedagogy for the Present

Appendix A: Overview of Student Participants

Appendix B: Nadifs Literary Analysis (Argument) for AP English

Appendix C: Scan of Sections of From the Hood to the Halls: Urban Fiction Meets Hip Hop Literacies Survival Guide

Appendix D: Katherines Autobiography fl£ª